Chances are good that you’ve seen incredible pictures online of the brilliant blue, springy green, earthy olive and chocolate eggs online. Rainbow egg baskets are SO PRETTY! If you are wanting to add some new girls to your flock, I’ve got a list of which hatcheries offer different colored layers by egg color. Simply scroll down to the egg color you want and browse the options under the image. Let’s look at some popular hatchery colored egg layers! Just Updated for Spring 2024 with the newest hatchery offerings!
Its Easy to Order Hatchery Colored Egg Layers!
Ordering from a hatchery is incredibly easy. Select the number of pullets/females you want and add them to your cart. Next select the date you want to have your chicks shipped (delivery will be 48 hours after the ship date and you must pick them up in person at the post office) and then checkout. It’s truly is that simple!
The links in this article are in alphabetical order and not every hatchery is listed, only those who offer colored egg layers.
Blue Colored Egg Layers
Ameraucanas: (Purebred ameraucanas in accepted breed feather colors)
Cackle Hatchery: Black Ameraucana, Blue Ameraucana, Buff Ameraucana, Splash Ameraucana, White Ameraucana (the hatchery discloses that a few will lay light green eggs and that the Lavender Ameraucanas are disappointing blue & green layers)
Meyer Hatchery: Black Ameraucana, Blue Ameraucana, Lavender Ameraucana, Splash Ameraucana
Valley Hatchery: Black Ameraucana, Blue Ameraucana, Splash Ameraucana
My Pet Chicken: Black Ameraucana, Blue Ameraucana, Blue/Black/Splash Ameraucana, Blue Splash Ameraucana, Lavender Ameraucana (hatchery discloses the Lavender Ameraucanas may lay greenish eggs)
Crested Cream Legbars:
Cackle Hatchery: Crested Cream Legbar (the hatchery discloses a few lay green)
Ideal Poultry: Crested Cream Legbar
Meyer Hatchery: Crested Cream Legbar, Frost White Legbar, Opal Legbar
Murray McMurray: Crested Cream Legbar
Privett Hatchery: Crested Cream Legbar
Valley Hatchery: Crested Cream Legbar
Homozygous Blue (2 Copies of Blue Egg Gene):
Murray McMurray: Whiting True Blue
Heterozygous Blue (1 Copy of Blue Egg Gene):
Hoover’s Hatchery: Prairie Bluebell Egger (guaranteed blue laying Easter Egger hybrid)
Meyer Hatchery: Lakeside Egger
My Pet Chicken: Bountiful Blue Egg Layer, Cuckoo Bluebar Blue-Egger (hatchery discloses that 1 out of 16 in both of these breeds may not lay blue)
Green Colored Egg Layers
If you want green eggs, consider these girls:
Hoover’s Hatchery: Starlight Green Egger
Meyer Hatchery: Green Queen
Murray McMurray: Whiting True Green
My Pet Chicken: Blue/Black Favaucana (lays a sage green or brown egg)
Blue, Green & Peach Colored Egg Layers
Cackle Hatchery: Lavender Ameraucana (the hatchery discloses that this feather color produces some blue and some green eggs)
Cackle Hatchery: Easter Egger
Freedom Ranger Hatchery: Easter Egger
Hoover’s Hatchery: Americana, Easter Egger (rumor has it you should opt for the Americana if you prefer fluffy faced/bearded hens – scroll down to view chicks! A few pea combed Americanas will lay peach.)
Ideal Poultry: Easter Egger
Myers Poultry: Americana
Meyer Hatchery: Fibro Easter Egger, Easter Egger, Steele Egger, Frizzle Easter Egger, Sapphire Jewel, Frizzle Sapphire Jewel
Murray McMurray: Ameraucanas (Easter Eggers) (customer reviews mention these are Easter Eggers who can lay blue or green eggs despite how the hybrid’s name is spelled)
My Pet Chicken: Lavender Dream Easter Egger, Blue Easter Egger, Green Queen Easter Egger, Classic Easter Egger, Frizzle Easter Egger, Silked Easter Egger (smallish size 3.5 lb females)
Privett Hatchery: Easter Egger
Townline Hatchery: Americana
Valley Hatchery: Easter Egger
Olive Colored Egg Layers
Cackle Hatchery: Olive Egger, F2 Olive Egger (please read the fine print, these are straight run chicks and the father roosters used technically make them a Back-Cross 1, not a true F2)
Hoover’s Hatchery: Sapphire Olive Egger, Olive Egger
Ideal Poultry: Olive Egger, Blue Feathered Olive Egger
Meyer Hatchery: Olive Egger, Wheaten Olive Egger, Partridge Olive Egger
Myers Poultry: Olive Egger
My Pet Chicken: Gold Kissed Granite Olive Egger
Townline Hatchery: Olive Egger
Valley Hatchery: Olive Egger
Chocolate Colored Egg Layers
Please note that hatchery Marans and dark egg layers are never going to be as dark as the eggs laid by hens purchased from professional Marans breeders. Hatchery Marans tend to lay #4-#5 shades. Cuckoo Marans often lay the lightest eggs, only slightly darker than grocery store brown eggs. Black Copper Marans tend to lay the darkest eggs.
Cackle Hatchery: Black Copper Marans, Black Tailed Red Marans, Wheaten Marans (hatchery egg colors shown are not dark)
Hoover’s Hatchery: Black Copper Marans, Midnight Majesty Marans, Wheaten Marans
Ideal Poultry: Black Copper Marans, Blue Copper Marans
Meyer Hatchery: Splash Marans, Black Copper Marans, Blue Copper Marans, Wheaten Marans, Blue Birchen Marans, Golden Cuckoo Marans
Murray McMurray: Black Copper Marans (egg colors shown are speckled & fairly dark for hatchery Marans)
Valley Hatchery: Black Copper Marans, Wheaten Marans
Mixed Colored Egg Layer Chicks
Here are some hatcheries that are offering unique colored egg layers or colored layer mixes:
Cackle Hatchery: F2 Olive Eggers (please read the fine print, these are straight run chicks and the father roosters used technically make them a Back-Cross 1, not a true F2)
Cackle Hatchery: Speckled Egger
Cackle Hatchery: Blue Layer Female Surplus
Cackle Hatchery: Rainbow Assorted Females (please read the description & reviews – this is a mix of Easter Eggers and brown laying Dual purpose breeds all in one mix)
Hoover’s Hatchery: Assorted Colored Egg Layers
Meyer Hatchery: Colorful Egg Layer Assortment
My Pet Chicken: Blues & Greens Assortment
Bantam Colored Egg Layers
A few hatcheries offer miniature chickens who will lay a colored egg!
Cackle Hatchery: Bantam Easter Egger (green, blue, peach possible; chicks are straight run)
Ideal Poultry: Easter Egger Bantam (straight run, hatchery discloses eggs are blueish-green, green and some occasionally lay brown)
Meyer Hatchery: Splash Ameraucana Bantam, Easter Egger Bantam, Steele Egger Bantam, Green Queen Bantam, Blue feathered Sex Link Easter Egger, Sage Gem Bantam
Murray McMurray: Ameraucana Bantam (customer reviews mentioned blue & green eggs; chicks are straight run)
My Pet Chicken: Bantam Easter Egger, Green Queen Easter Egger Bantam, Blue Sex-Linked Female Easter Egger Bantam, Splash Ameraucana Bantam, Welsummer Bantam (offers sexed female bantams)
My Pet Chicken: Silked Easter Eggers (smallish 3.5 pound females are slightly larger than Silkies but smaller than 4 pound Easter Egger hens)
Valley Hatchery: Easter Egger Bantams
Happy Shopping!
There are so many new hatchery options – with more being added every year – that make it fun to see what you get! Tractor Supply often gets their chicks from Hoover’s Hatchery and your local feed store might be willing to tell you where they buy their chicks (ours uses Privett and Ideal). If you have this info, you may be able to order chicks from a completely different hatchery and add other colored egg layers from nearby feed stores to create a stunning rainbow in your egg basket!
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